A Hamas leader has issued a warning that the terror group’s October 7 massacre will happen ‘again and again’ until Israel is ‘annihilated.’ Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister for Hamas, told a broadcaster on Wednesday, November 1, that the terrorists ‘did not want to harm civilians’ during their bloody rampage through southern Israel, which saw more than 1,400 Israelis murdered in cold blood. He said the terror group had only done so due to ‘complications on the ground. …
Tag: October
The Federal Government has declared Monday October 2 as a public holiday in commemoration of the 63rd independence celebration. The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration in Abuja on behalf of the government. In a statement released, the Minister congratulated all Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora on the occasion. He assured Nigerians of government’s continued commitment to tackling challenges facing the country. “It is today a known fact that difficult Socio-Economic …
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, of Nigeria have declared an indefinite strike starting from October 3. At a press briefing held in Abuja on Tuesday, September 26, the President of NLC, Joe Ajaero and the TUC, Festus Osifo, advised Nigerians to stockpile foodstuffs because the strike would shut down economic activities in the country. According to the communique read by the two Presidents, the indefinite strike is as a result …
The national identification number (NIN) and subscriber identity module (SIM) integration exercise has been extended by the federal government till October 31. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) who disclosed that there are now a total of 59.8 million unique NIN enrolments with an average of three to four SIMs per NIN, said the exercise was extended to “accommodate registration in hard-to-reach remote areas, foreigners and diplomatic missions, and Nigerians in the diaspora”. “The Federal …
Obinwanne Okeke, the owner of Invictus Group, who was arrested in the United States last year for computer-based fraud, has pleaded guilty to $11 million (N4.2 billion) fraud. The 32-year-old Nigerian businessman admitted to American prosecutors that he was involved in computer-based fraud between 2015 and 2019. Joshua Stueve, a spokesperson for the United States District Court for Eastern District of Virginia, told Premium Times on Thursday evening that Mr Okeke could spend 20 years maximum penalty in …
Anthony Joshua’s fight against Kubrat Pulev has been pushed to October at the earliest ahead of his possible showdown with Tyson Fury in 2021. The WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion was due to meet IBF mandatory challenger Pulev, on June 20 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, but due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the fight will now take place between October and December. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed the latest development to Sportsmail saying: ‘With everything going on and the fact …